Joachim Büchner (art historian)

Joachim Büchner (born October 7, 1929 in Jena ; † January 29, 1991 in Hemmingen near Hanover) was a German art historian and the first director of the Sprengel Museum Hanover .

Life

After attending school in Graefenthal and Coburg , Joachim Büchner studied art history, classical archeology and library sciences at the universities in Erlangen , Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . In 1964 he received his doctorate in Erlangen . He then completed a traineeship at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne . From 1960 to 1975 Büchner was the curator of the North Rhine-Westphalia art collection in Düsseldorf .

In 1975 Joachim Büchner became director of the original art museum in Hanover with the Sprengel Collection , founded by Bernhard Sprengel in 1969 . Under the direction of Büchner, the first construction phase of the Sprengel Museum took shape until the inauguration in 1979. Büchner organized exhibitions on artists for whom he wrote his own publications, such as Emil Nolde , Paul Klee , Kurt Schwitters , Emil Nolde and Max Ernst . Exhibitions on the artists' association of the abstract Hanover and the Hanoverian painters of the New Objectivity also attracted local and international attention.

Since the mid-1980s, the plans for the second construction phase of the Sprengel Museum were drawn up under Büchner's leadership. In 1989, when the building expansion work began, Büchner resigned from the museum management for health reasons.

He also taught at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences , since 1987 as an honorary professor . In addition, he chaired the Lower Saxony Art Commission for many years . In 1990 Joachim Büchner was honored with the award of the Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Cross of Merit .

Fonts (selection)

• About the decorative painting of late Gothic church rooms in old Bavaria. In: Mouseion. Studies in art and history for Otto H. Förster . Cologne 1960, pp. 184-193.
• The late Gothic pilasted church in Bavaria and Austria (= Erlangen contributions to linguistics and art studies. Volume 17). Carl, Nuremberg 1964 (dissertation).
• Julius Bretz (= monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian contemporary art. Volume 40). Bongers, Recklinghausen 1970, ISBN 3-7647-0211-7 .
• Walter Woern. Life and work . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-7701-0537-0 .
• Kurt Schwitters . Edition Libri Artis, Hannover 1987, ISBN 3-88746-147-9 .

literature

• Hugo Thielen : Büchner, Joachim. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 92.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Büchner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Büchner †. as an author at Wallstein Verlag, last accessed on January 28, 2013
• Joachim Büchner at book-info.com